Rachid Kassim, who US and French authorities have said was killed in an air strike on Islamic State group positions near the beseiged city of Mosul last week, and who was suspected of coordinating terorist attacks in France, left an audi recording critical of the group's leadership for not taking part in front-line actions.
Speculation that Donald Trump will nominate Jeffrey Loria as US ambassador to France has led the family of the president's son-in-law and White House advisor, Jared Kushner, to pull out of a deal to buy Loria's baseball team, the Miami Marlins, reportedly to avoid allegations of conflict of interest.
Maverick centrist Emmanuel Macron, the former French economy minister who is currently tipped by opinion polls to reach the two-horse final round of presidential elections in May, has warned Britain that 'you don’t get a passport and you don’t get access to the single market when you decide to leave' the European Union.
The man from the south-east Riviera region, who is reportedly claiming 45 million euros in damages, alleges a bug in the Uber mobile application allowed his wife to track his movements on her mobile phone after he used it on one occasion to book a ride.
The victims were buried by a 400-metre wide avalanche near the ski resort of Tignes where search and rescue operations continued Monday afternoon for possible survivors from the group of skiers who are believed to have numbered nine people.
